(Joe Duffy) Application hangs are one of the most frustrating situations a user can experience. They’re terribly difficult to find before shipping, and even more difficult to debug after an application has been deployed. Unlike a crash, an application hang may not produce a crash dump or trigger cus
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(Willie Favero) Did that get your attention? I thought it might. I am at SHARE this week. Although I am here to present, I do get an opportunity to attend sessions. One of my favorite speakers is Hugh Smith from Silicon Valley Lab. I like Hugh’s presentations because no matter how many times I l
DB2 Integration with SQL Server 2005, Part I: Linked Server Enhancements
(Michael Sansoterra) As the old saying goes, “good things come to those who wait.” At last, the long-anticipated release of SQL Server 2005 has finally arrived, and there are plenty of good things in it. This article focuses on how SQL Server 2005 makes integration with the DB2 database easier thank
An Oracle Query Tool, Part 1
(dna2) This is a small tool for creating and executing queries. The main purpose of this article is to create an Oracle query tool with syntax coloring. This article is written using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition and requires Microsoft NET Framework v2.0 to run.
Patterns: Building Serial and Parallel Processes with WebSphere Process Server V6
(Martin Keen, Andy Garratt, Ed Grossman, Dennis Stilhoff, Torsten Wilms and Dan Zrobok) IBM’s WebSphere Process Server, and the accompanying WebSphere Integration Developer development tool, provides a vast array of powerful features for building business process solutions. But how can you utilize t
The Emerging Art of Agile Publishing
(Michael Fitzgerald) Writing books and publishing them can be arduous tasks. A book may take years to write, and, once written, may languish in production for months. Writing 300-plus pages takes soul-searching, no matter the topic, and getting a manuscript cleaned up and ready to print requires a s
How easy Cryptography is in VS.Net
(Sushmita Kumari) The Internet is an international network consisting of individual computers and computer networks that are all interconnected by many paths. Unlike Local Area Networks where access is physically restricted to authorized users, the Internet is a public network and can be accessed by
Get Your Hands on Better Multimedia Control in .NET
(Steve Orr) If you’ve ever tried to find classes in the .NET Framework that allow you to play audio and video, you may have noticed the gaping hole where this functionality should be.
Why Oracle’s Automatic Storage Management?
(Sreeram Surapaneni) Oracle Database 10g’s mantra is simpler, more automated database management. We DBAs cannot help but get excited about all the new technology that Oracle routinely releases. With the release of Oracle’s Volume Manager and File system built into the Database kernel (ASM) that ent